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Onishi Yasuaki: Vertical Emptiness and White Landscape
His installations are created using tree branches or wire, hot glue and urea. While his installations are neutral they are colored with imagination. These large spaces are activated by participants who are displaced from reality and take a journey into an alternative world. Installation Magazine: Why did you start using tree branches and […]
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Thomas Witte’s Paper Landscape
My name is Thomas Witte, inspired by the vibrant stencil graffiti scene in Buenos Aires, I create intricate cut paper drawings utilizing images I have photographed as well as photographs my grandfather shot over a 40-year period. The photographs my grandfather took show the history of his family and friends, from backyard barbeques to travels […]
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Adam Silverman at Laguna Art Museum: Clay and Space
I am not trained as a potter. I have taken lots of classes over the years, but always for pleasure and never as a real ceramics student. My training is in architecture, in the context of art and design school, so I do not have the expertise to know where “traditional techniques” and “experimental techniques” […]
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Gregory Siff for Helmut Lang and Project Angel Food
Using the city as a canvas, Siff painted against the Melrose street sign, the Marc Jacobs advertisement in the distance, the palm trees that lined the Hollywood hills and the bodies of pedestrians whose figures reflected in the glass. Working behind his Ray Ban frames and rocking to the beat in his headphones, Siff began […]
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Heringa/ Van Kalsbeek and the Zundert Flower Parade
Liet Heringa and Maarten van Kalsbeek are beachcombers, with a preference for things which have been discarded or used up. The basic material for the sculptures comes from jumble sales, auctions and rubbish dumps. And for the last couple of years their primary source material has come from the Corso floats in the Netherlands’ Zundert […]
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Francis Bitonti: The Algorithm of Contemporary Design
New York based designer Francis Bitonti conceptualizes complex design through intricate materials and renderings. Bitoni explains that in order to design for the future we must embrace its vernacular. He explains, “we must design in that state, we must design through the machine, we must work through the algorithm if we want to speak a […]